Re: [PATCH] Do not require Python for the git-remote-{bzr,hg} placeholder scripts

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mar 3, 2017, 11:21 UTC
Message-ID: <20170303112104.2n3hu23sajpn2x2z@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <0102015a93d18443-c574aaf8-5656-49e8-8848-810e1fadc87a-000000@eu-west-1.amazonses.com>

On Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 10:57:46AM +0000, Sebastian Schuberth wrote:

> It does not make sense for these placeholder scripts to depend on Python
> just because the real scripts do. At the example of Git for Windows, we
> would not even be able to see those warnings as it does not ship with
> Python. So just use plain shell scripts instead.

Yeah, this seems like an obvious improvement. I think we got here because the originals issued a warning but kept working, and then it was slowly whittled down to remove the "working" part.

At some point these can probably go away. It's been 3 years since they turned into nothing but warnings, so presumably most people have upgraded by now (I know people often go a long time on old distro-packaged versions, but the distro packagers would presumably figure this out in the meantime).

OTOH, it is not really hurting much, so I do not mind keeping them around for another 3 years (or more) just to catch any stragglers.

-Peff